Nancy Mitford Quotes - Page 2

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• The trouble is that people seem to expect happiness in life. I can't imagine why; but they do. They are unhappy before they marry, and they imagine to themselves that the reason of their unhappiness will be removed when they are married.

  Nancy Mitford

  Believe, People, Unhappy

  "Christmas Pudding and Pigeon Pie".

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• People in towns are always preoccupied. 'Have I missed the bus? Have I forgotten the potatoes? Can I get across the road?

  Nancy Mitford

  Cities, People, Potatoes

  Nancy Mitford (1962). “The water beetle”

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• I do love translating; it is the pure pleasure of writing without the misery of inventing.

  Nancy Mitford

  Writing, Misery, Pleasure

  Nancy Mitford, Charlotte Mosley (1993). “Love from Nancy: the letters of Nancy Mitford”, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt (HMH)

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• Always be civil to the girls, you never know who they may marry.

  Nancy Mitford

  Girl, May, Aphorism

  'Love in a Cold Climate' (1949) pt. 1, ch. 2

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• Spring came late, but when it came it was hand-in-hand with summer, and almost at once everything was baking and warm, and in the villages the people danced every night on concrete dancing floors under the plane trees.

  Nancy Mitford

  Summer, Spring, Night

  Nancy Mitford (1963). “The Nancy Mitford Omnibus”

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• oh how television diminishes everything.

  Nancy Mitford

  Television, Diminish

  Nancy Mitford, Charlotte Mosley (1993). “Love from Nancy: the letters of Nancy Mitford”, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt (HMH)

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• Children should be like waffles--you should be able to throw the first one away.

  Nancy Mitford

  Children, Waffles, Able

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• English doctors have killed 3/4 of my friends & the joke is the remaining 1/4 go on recommending them, so odd is human nature.

  Nancy Mitford

  Doctors, Goes On, Human Nature

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• And Left-wing people are always sad because they mind dreadfully about their causes, and the causes are always going so badly.

  Nancy Mitford

  Wings, People, Mind

  Nancy Mitford (2010). “The Pursuit of Love”, p.111, Vintage

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• But I think she would have been happy with Fabrice,' I said. 'He was the great love of her life, you know.' Oh, dulling,' said my mother, sadly. 'One always thinks that. Every, every time.

  Nancy Mitford

  Mother, Thinking, Great Love

  Nancy Mitford (2010). “The Pursuit of Love”, p.214, Vintage

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• Most people like reading about what they already know - there is even a public for yesterday's weather.

  Nancy Mitford

  Reading, Weather, Yesterday

  Nancy Mitford (1962). “The water beetle”

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• You've no idea how long life goes on and how many, many changes it brings. Young people seem to imagine that it's over in a flash, that they do this thing, or that thing, and then die, but I can assure you they are quite wrong.

  Nancy Mitford

  Ideas, Long, People

  Nancy Mitford (2010). “Love in a Cold Climate”, p.134, Vintage

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• A typical Irish dinner would be: cream flavored with lobster, cream with bits of veal in it, green peas and cream, cream cheese, cream flavored with strawberries.

  Nancy Mitford

  Typical, Lobster, Would Be

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• Irish gardens beat all for horror. With 19 gardeners, Lord Talbot of Malahide has produced an affair exactly like a suburban golf course.

  Nancy Mitford

  Nature, Golf, Garden

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• Twice in her life she had mistaken something else for it; it was like seeing somebody in the street who you think is a friend, you whistle and wave and run after him, and it is not only not the friend, but not even very like him. A few minutes later the real friend appears in view, and then you can't imagine how you ever mistook that other person for him. Linda was now looking upon the authentic face of love, and she knew it, but it frightened her. That it should come so casually, so much by a series of accidents, was frightening.

  Nancy Mitford

  Running, Real, Thinking

  Nancy Mitford (1963). “The Nancy Mitford Omnibus”

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• always either on a peak of happiness or drowning in black waters of despair they loved or they loathed, they lived in a world of superlatives

  Nancy Mitford

  Water, Black, Despair

  Nancy Mitford (2010). “The Pursuit of Love”, p.13, Vintage

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• Do you always laugh when you make love?' said Fabrice. I hadn't thought about it, but I suppose I do. I generally laugh when I'm happy and cry when I'm not. Do you find it odd?

  Nancy Mitford

  Laughing, Making Love, Cry

  Nancy Mitford (2010). “The Pursuit of Love”, p.155, Vintage

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• Nothing about human beings ever had the power to move me as a child. Black Beauty now ... !

  Nancy Mitford

  Children, Moving, Black

  Nancy Mitford (2010). “Love in a Cold Climate”, p.21, Vintage

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• Oh dear... it really is rather disillusioning. When one's friends marry for money they are wretched, when they marry for love it is worse. What is the proper thing to marry for, I should like to know?

  Nancy Mitford

  Should, Dear, Wretched

  Nancy Mitford (2013). “Christmas Pudding and Pigeon Pie”, p.162, Vintage

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• Always be civil to the girls, you never know who they may marry' is a aphorism which has saved many an English spinster from being treated like an Indian widow.

  Nancy Mitford

  Girl, Widows, May

  Love in a Cold Climate (1949) pt. 1, ch. 2

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• Chickens are cheerless birds, I advise you to keep geese which can be taught to follow like dogs, one needs all the companionship one can get in these days.

  Nancy Mitford

  Dog, Bird, Needs

  Nancy Mitford, Charlotte Mosley (1993). “Love from Nancy: the letters of Nancy Mitford”, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt (HMH)

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• Nothing makes people crosser than being considered too old for love.

  Nancy Mitford

  People, Age

  Nancy Mitford (2010). “Love in a Cold Climate”, p.60, Vintage

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• In France that is the one rule, never make trouble.

  Nancy Mitford

  France, Trouble

  Nancy Mitford, Charlotte Mosley (1993). “Love from Nancy: the letters of Nancy Mitford”, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt (HMH)

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• Always remember, children, that marriage is a very intimate relationship. It's not just sitting and chatting to a person; there are other things, you know.

  Nancy Mitford

  Marriage, Children, Intimate Relationships

  Nancy Mitford (2010). “Love in a Cold Climate”, p.126, Vintage

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• Greece is not a country of happy mediums: everything there seems to be either wonderful or horrible.

  Nancy Mitford

  Country, Wonderful, Horrible

  Nancy Mitford (1962). “The water beetle”

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